Bulldog Best: Scored the shorthanded game-winner in the fifth overtime at Union (3/4) in the first round of the 2005-06 ECACHL playoffs, in what was the longest game in NCAA history...
2005-06: Played in 31 games as a freshman... Tallied his first Yale point, a goal, vs. Mercyhurst (11/22)... Had seven goals on the season, first among freshmen... Scored power play goals vs. Dartmouth (2/3) and at Union (3/3)... Notched a shorthanded, game-winning goal in the fifth overtime of the longest game in NCAA history at Union (3/4)...
At West Waterloo High School: Attended school in Iowa while competing for Waterloo Black Hawks of USHL... Third in league with 30 goals in 2004-05... USHL All-Star in 2005 and Booster Club Player of the Year... Made USA Hockey's Select 14 and 15 teams... National Honor Society, Iowa Scholar Senior Honor Student and Waterloo Rotary Club/U.S. Achievement Academy English and Math Award... Before living in Iowa, he was an Illinois Silver Gloves Boxing Champion...
Personal: David Nicholas Meckler, born July 9, 1987, is the son of Marcy and Bruce Meckler... Interested in medicine.